Is sex really painful the first time? That’s one of the most common questions I get asked from engaged women waiting for the wedding night. How much is going to hurt? What should I expect? This month I’m going to look at some “myths” that we often have around sex....
This week The Good Guy’s Guide and Good Girl’s Guide to Great Sex Turn 2! Two years ago, these two books launched. I wrote the original Good Girl’s Guide to Great Sex in 2012, and Zondervan contracted with Keith and me to write a companion guy’s version, to come out...
The 72 Hour Rule is Made Up by Evangelical Authors. Yep. This month on the blog we're "fact checking" common sex beliefs, and one of the biggest ones in evangelical circles is the 72 hour rule: the idea that a wife must have sex with her husband every 72 hours,...
Often what we think about sex gets in the way of great sex. We're in the middle of our orgasm series, and we're less than one week out from releasing our Orgasm Course! I'm so excited (though I still have a ton to do!). One of the things that we've talked about...
What do husbands who care about their wife's pleasure and their wife's orgasm actually do? We're in the middle of our orgasm series, culminating in the release of our Orgasm Course next Monday (Yay!). Katie's frantically editing the last of the videos, and Rebecca's...
Is orgasm elusive because the whole time you're worrying that you're taking too long? We're in the middle of our October orgasm series, leading up to the release of The Orgasm Course on October 26! I spent most of the week at my daughter Katie's house right now while...
About a quarter of women never reach orgasm, or very rarely reach orgasm, when they have sex with their husbands. Another quarter orgasm only sometimes. According to our survey of 20,000 Christian women, only 48% of women is orgasm reliable. During the month of...
Can research point us to what makes women more orgasmic--and what makes orgasm less likely? Rebecca here on the blog today! My mother, my sister and I are going full tilt creating The Orgasm Course (now there's a sentence I never thought I'd have to type), and as I...
Over half of Christian women report that orgasm is, at best, a hit and miss thing. Many can't reach orgasm at all. This month, I want to dedicate my series to orgasm--understanding what it is; understanding why we have roadblocks; and culminating in the release of our...
If I were going to make a marriage app for couples to spice up their marriage, what would I focus on? I've often wondered that. I've thought about how I'd encourage fun "games" where couples get challenges to do more foreplay, but in a fun way, that helps them explore...
Does your marriage feel "sexy"? Or does it feel "safe"? "Routine"? "Boring"? There's nothing wrong with safe. There's nothing even wrong with routine! But let's face it: sometimes you just want to get sexy back again. Note: This post contains some affiliate links. In...
What does it mean to be "attracted to your husband"? What does that actually feel like and look like? I've been talking about libido all month on the blog, and one of the problems when we're talking about libido is trying to understand what we even mean by being...
Are libido differences really about libido--or are they often about orgasm? We've been talking about libido all month, and how to navigate libido differences. And as I've been repeatedly saying, our survey of 20,000 women (and others) have shown that often when a...
Do you feel really alone when your spouse rejects you sexually? We're talking about libido all month on the blog, and I opened by talking about how to find contentment even if you're the higher drive spouse and not getting as much sex as you want--assuming you're...
What do you do if your husband rarely wants to make love? He can go forever without initiating, and you feel lonely and rejected? We've been talking this week about what constitutes a healthy frequency of sex in marriage, and what to do if sex is far less frequent. I...